Cable Television Association of Russia

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Late
last month, as thousands of international journalists prepared to descend on
Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics, the Kremlin resorted to using a controversy
to silence a critical television station. A direct move to shut down the
station would have been too blunt--particularly at a time when all eyes were on
Russia--so authorities resorted to exploiting a producer's blunder, blowing it
out of proportion, and pushing a third party to do their bidding. This is what
happened.